Chapter Summaries

After Atlantis rose, Stark and Captain America found Namor furious over the destruction and unable to agree with him on terms for peace. The world governments rejected his demands, and Stark went to S.H.I.E.L.D. to discuss the crisis with Hill as its forces stood ready.

• Stark flew to Atlantis, where he and Captain America saw the chaos caused by the city rising into sunlight.
• Namor confronted Stark and Captain America, blamed them for the disaster, and demanded control of all seas and a public apology from S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Namor’s guards armed themselves, and Stark and Captain America withdrew after the Atlanteans set up plasma cannons.
• Baldy convened world leaders, but they rejected Namor’s demands.
• Stark went to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Dockyard base to speak with Hill, where three Helicarriers, two hundred Quinjets, and over five thousand soldiers were prepared.

Daisy prepared to step down as S.H.I.E.L.D. Director and arranged for Hill to take over, using a war with Atlantis to build Hill’s prestige. After the United Nations authorized the deployment, Hill’s forces attacked Atlantis, shattered its city shield, and met Namor’s airborne counterattack.

• Daisy planned to retire as Director and hand S.H.I.E.L.D. over to Hill, while a conflict with Atlantis would strengthen Hill’s standing.
• Stark tried to persuade Namor to negotiate, but Namor rejected his appeal and declared that Atlantis would fight.
• The United Nations authorized S.H.I.E.L.D. to deploy troops, and Hill led the Helicarriers to surround Atlantis.
• Hill ordered a bombardment that included nuclear bombs and a miniature antimatter bomb, breaking Atlantis’s city shield.
• Namor sent more than three thousand Atlantean warriors against the Helicarriers, and Hill sent S.H.I.E.L.D.’s aircraft and flying motorcycles into battle.

S.H.I.E.L.D. conquered Atlantis with help from Sea-King, and Stark negotiated a preliminary agreement recognizing Atlantis as a United Nations member. Daisy then tried to recruit Namor for a dangerous mission and explained that she was populating the Clone Universe while preparing to draw the Beyonder Race into the Marvel world.

• Hill sent Sandman, Mole Man, Rhino, Nightcrawler, Electro, and Crossbones into battle as Queen White confirmed that Sea-King would honor his agreement.
• Crossbones, Rhino, and Mole Man captured Namor, and Sea-King's alliance with S.H.I.E.L.D. led to the surrender of Atlantis.
• Stark and Sea-King reached a preliminary agreement for Atlantis to join the United Nations and recognize the surface nations' borders.
• Daisy disguised herself in a black robe and offered Namor and his people a chance to fight for freedom, but Namor refused.
• Daisy planned to move Namor and his people into the Clone Universe and explained why the Beyonder Race had to be lured into the Marvel world without alerting the Living Tribunal.

Daisy prepared the Clone Multiverse for an impending battle and confronted a Watcher whose observation could expose her plan. The Watcher refused to stop observing, and Daisy was left facing him with Director Fury offering his help.

• Daisy gathered nearly eight billion intelligent lives in the Clone Multiverse, accepting that some might be sacrificed to protect the wider multiverse.
• Daisy told Molecule Man to conceal their actions from the gods and monitor the Clone Multiverse while she went to confront the Watcher.
• On the moon, Daisy warned the Watcher that she would kill him and the other Watchers unless they stopped observing.
• The Watcher refused to abandon his mission and asked Daisy to act, despite knowing he could not defeat her.
• Director Fury emerged with a gamma-radiation bullet, aimed his rifle at the Watcher, and offered Daisy help.

Daisy sealed the Watcher and returned to the Clone Multiverse, where she began assembling it despite Molecule Man’s criticism. She then started cutting real regions from existing universes to furnish the new multiverse, stopping before the gods could uncover what she was doing.

• Daisy used golden energy to seal the Watcher and all his parallel-space avatars, then confirmed he had vanished from the multiverse.
• Daisy told Director Fury that an Eyeball Man in Georgia had witnessed him, and Director Fury headed toward the Attilan ruins.
• Daisy returned to the Clone Multiverse, where Molecule Man urged her to assemble it and complained that her mercy had delayed their work.
• Daisy assembled the Clone Multiverse while studying Molecule Man’s techniques, occasionally silencing his criticism by slapping him away.
• After preparing to avoid alerting the gods, Daisy began extracting real regions from the multiverse and stopped as the gods turned their attention toward her.

As disappearances spread across the multiverse, Doctor Strange devoted himself to studying in the Multiverse Library. There, he encountered Loki in a hidden room filled with Asgardian texts, and Loki asked whether Strange had followed him.

• Daisy continued investigating how to connect the cycle of life and death while Molecule Man urged her to activate the Celestials.
• Over the following year, Earth expanded cooperation with Atlantis, Stark fought for clean energy, and Hill took over as Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Daisy caused millions of Subterraneans and others across the multiverse to vanish, including enemies of Sea-King and populations on alien worlds.
• Doctor Strange spent a year studying intensely in the Multiverse Library, neglecting his friends and pushing his alignment toward neutrality.
• Strange spotted Loki in the library, followed him through a hidden door, and found a room filled with Asgardian books.
• Loki noticed Strange and asked whether he had followed him.

Loki sought answers about altered memories and reality, then traveled to God's Quarry after Doctor Strange gave him its location. He arrived safely and found the quarry and the three Fates Witches unchanged.

• Loki searched Asgardian records for clues about his brother, but found nothing and asked Doctor Strange for help.
• Loki told Doctor Strange that memories were changing and demonstrated that Mandela's death date and Mjolnir's inscription had been altered.
• Loki revealed that he planned to seek answers at God's Quarry, and Doctor Strange supplied its precise coordinates.
• Loki returned to Asgard, boarded a dragonbone warship, and traveled through space to God's Quarry.
• Loki entered the tranquil quarry and saw the three Fates Witches watching the crater within Fate's Mist.

Loki found Thor’s blood beside the pit in God’s Quarry and jumped in, where the Fates Witches sent him to a strange version of New York. He sought help at the New York Sanctum and met its Sorcerer Supreme, Supreme Captain Steve Rogers.

• Loki identified Thor’s blood around the pit and decided Thor had likely gone down into it.
• Loki leaped into the pit, and the Fates Witches infused it with Destiny Power.
• Loki awoke in New York and noticed that the passersby had severely incomplete souls.
• Loki went to the New York Sanctum seeking Doctor Strange but found a muscular man in a Captain America uniform instead.
• The man introduced himself as Supreme Captain Steve Rogers, and his servant King Bucky brought tea.

Loki met Supreme Captain in a parallel universe and learned that everyone there seemed to have incomplete souls. After Supreme Captain’s investigation confirmed the anomaly, the heroes sought Adam Warlock for help, leaving Loki uneasy about what they would find.

• Loki asked Supreme Captain about his origins, and Supreme Captain explained that Doctor Abraham had given him magical power and Master Jasper Sitwell had taught him magic.
• Supreme Captain and King Bucky defeated and banished Red Dormammu while Loki arrived too late to help.
• Loki asked why ordinary people’s souls seemed incomplete, and Supreme Captain said he would investigate while Loki stayed in New York.
• Loki explored the city and saw unusual heroes, including Professor Wolf, Iron Hammer, Ghost Leopard, and Spider Knight.
• Supreme Captain told Loki that Translucent’s analysis confirmed all life lacked half its soul, and the heroes set out to find Adam Warlock.
• The group found a Golden Cocoon, and Adam Warlock emerged as Loki sensed that something about him was wrong.

Adam Warlock recruited Loki and a group of superheroes to defeat Davandra, a monster feeding on souls in Soul World. After the heroes killed it, Adam watched the creature turn to ash, while Loki remained wary of the secrets Adam had concealed.

• Loki suspected Adam Warlock was hiding something, but Adam told the superheroes that Davandra was corrupting his authority and devouring the beings of Soul World.
• Adam teleported the heroes to Soul World, where they found Davandra absorbing energy and swallowing souls on an island marked by Holy Light.
• Supreme Captain, Doctor Strange, and the other heroes attacked Davandra, while Adam explained that accumulated negative emotions had created the monster and left him unable to harm it.
• Green Ant-Man tore off five of Davandra's tentacles, Ghost Leopard burned away part of its body, and Loki froze it so the others could keep fighting.
• Red Widow and Green Ant-Man restrained Davandra as Supreme Captain drove his shield into its neck and Iron Hammer struck it through, severing its neck and turning it to ash.

Adam destroyed the illusory Soul World and sent Loki falling through a shifting passage for an immeasurable time. Loki landed in a dark cavern, where he discovered thousands of Celestials—and their reaction to him left him afraid.

• Adam thanked Loki, declared the Soul World an illusion, and destroyed it with a strike of his staff.
• The Supreme Captain and his companions were pulled into the void, while Loki fell through a seemingly endless spatial passage.
• Loki eventually hit the ground, found himself in a pitch-black cavern, and used Mjolnir's faint glow to explore.
• Loki's hammer struck something metal, awakening thousands of Celestials in the cavern.
• The Celestials confirmed an external signal and began repeating “Activate,” frightening Loki.

Loki unknowingly helped Daisy move her homemade Celestials into the Clone Multiverse while Adam’s energy surge concealed her preparations, leaving Daisy and Molecule Man to wait for the Beyonder Race. Meanwhile, Deadpool returned from Hell and married Summer in New York, with Daisy and her family attending.

• Mjolnir activated the Celestials, which left the cavern through a spatial passage as Loki watched before returning to Asgard.
• Daisy’s Celestials entered the Clone Multiverse while Adam’s recovery and breakthrough concealed their movements, and Daisy gathered helpers to maintain the universe.
• Daisy and Molecule Man finished their preparations and waited, unsure whether the Beyonder Race had noticed the changes or begun its journey.
• Deadpool returned from four years in Hell and sent wedding invitations to the superheroes, who eventually agreed to attend.
• Azazel agreed to officiate after Doctor Strange, Captain America, and Wolverine refused, and Little Franklin restored Deadpool’s original appearance for the ceremony.
• Daisy attended the wedding with Jean, Wanda, the children, and Big Orange, who brought Captain Meow and Spider-Ham.

Big Orange introduced Daisy to Navigator and Frog Thor, while a large crowd gathered in Central Park for Deadpool and Summer’s wedding. As the wedding began, Stark asked Daisy to help him acquire advanced alien technology, and she directed him to Yondu.

• Big Orange brought Navigator, the Grandmaster’s teleportation-skilled daughter, and Frog Thor to meet Daisy.
• Deadpool enthusiastically presented Frog Thor to the wedding guests as the third Thor, and Daisy brought Big Orange’s companions into Central Park.
• Heroes, friends, and family gathered for Deadpool and Summer’s wedding, while Gamora and Nebula nearly fought before Baldy separated them.
• Stark asked Daisy to procure a list of advanced alien devices, and Daisy gave him Yondu’s communications coordinate.
• Deadpool and Summer’s wedding officially began in Central Park at two in the afternoon.

After Deadpool married Summer and their daughter Valda Wilson was born, Thanos spent years in isolation before resurrecting Malekith out of boredom. Malekith escaped with Thanos’s Mind Stone and Mind Scepter and infiltrated the White House to incite war.

• Deadpool and Summer married, and a month later they welcomed their daughter, Valda Wilson.
• Thanos remained lonely and dissatisfied with the universe, then left a refugee convoy and settled on a desolate planet.
• Thanos spent two years restoring Malekith to life, explaining that he had saved him because he was bored.
• Malekith fled with Thanos’s Mind Stone and Mind Scepter, then chose Earth as his target after deciding Hela was too powerful to confront.
• Malekith infiltrated the White House and planned to control its leaders and provoke a war as Baldy entered his second term.

Baldy considered replacing Tony Stark as Secretary of State while Mrs. Betty watched over him as his assistant. When Malekith tried to steal the Mind Scepter, Mrs. Betty resisted him and drove him into the Shadow Realm, leaving Baldy with the scepter and a new sense of his growing strength.

• Baldy chose James Wesley as his preferred candidate for Secretary of State and asked Mrs. Betty to arrange a weekend golf meeting with him.
• Mrs. Betty sensed Malekith hiding nearby, and he attacked her with the Mind Scepter, but its power bounced off her overwhelming rage.
• Mrs. Betty seized the scepter and grew into She-Hulk while Baldy prepared a magical defense.
• Malekith realized he lacked the strength to fight them, failed to wrench the scepter free, and escaped into the Shadow Realm.
• Baldy calmed Mrs. Betty with a spell, examined the altered Mind Scepter, and claimed it after reassuring his wife.

Malekith freed Nyx, the Goddess of Night, from her seal before fleeing as she set her sights on Mount Olympus. At Daisy’s home, an unnatural darkness suppressed light across Europe, and Daisy realized the family faced a powerful new threat.

• Malekith broke the shrine’s seal on Crete and summoned Nyx, while Thanos briefly took control of Malekith’s body to taunt her.
• Malekith escaped into the Shadow Realm, and Nyx emerged from the shrine and declared that she had returned to the Greek Gods.
• Daisy fed Little Rachel dinner while Jean scolded her for mischief and urged her to study.
• The manor went dark despite its power supply remaining intact, and Jean and Daisy realized that a strange rule was absorbing light.
• Daisy tested the darkness with her Star Mark power and saw that Sicily, Italy, and the rest of Europe had also fallen into darkness.

Daisy allowed Nyx to grow stronger so she could pursue revenge against the gods who had sealed her. Nyx reclaimed one-third of her divine titles by killing Zeus, then attacked the Dream Dimension while Hercules inherited the role of Mount Olympus's Fourth Generation God King.

• Daisy spread darkness across the universe and adjacent dimensions, then told Jean she intended to strengthen Nyx and send her somewhere that needed her power.
• Nyx went to Mount Olympus, killed Zeus, and recovered the divine title called 'The Long Night That Envelops Reality.'
• Nyx left Mount Olympus devastated and headed for the Dream Dimension to find the divine title Zeus had hidden there.
• Hercules, Ares, and Asclepius returned to Mount Olympus and found its gods defeated and Athena dying.
• Athena transferred Zeus's God King power and the portion meant for herself to Hercules, naming him the Fourth Generation God King.

After Athena’s death, Hercules inherited the title of God King and searched for Nyx, who had taken the last fragment of her divine authority. Daisy captured Nyx in the Clone Multiverse, while she and Molecule Man prepared for the approaching Beyonder Race.

• Athena revealed that Nyx’s divine authority was divided among Zeus, Nightmare, and a fragment on Long Island, then extinguished her divine fire and died completely.
• Hercules inherited the position of God King of Mount Olympus and led four other gods into the Dream Dimension, where they found Nightmare dead and the fragment gone.
• Hercules gathered heroes in New York to wait for Nyx, but after fifteen days Stark and then Thor lost patience, and the group disbanded.
• Nyx found the final fragment beneath Daisy’s Long Island estate, but Daisy pulled her into the Clone Multiverse, where Nyx’s darkness helped conceal the realm.
• Molecule Man sensed the Beyonder Race drawing closer, and Daisy explained that her plan was to draw them into the world and defeat them under its rules.

After the Living Tribunal summoned the multiverse’s deities to Neutral Space, Daisy sent Big Orange in her place to avoid being exposed. Adam arrived prepared for battle, convinced that he was destined to become the next Living Tribunal.

• Lord of Chaos told Daisy that the Living Tribunal had summoned cosmic deities and other powerful beings to gather.
• Daisy claimed she was unwell and persuaded Big Orange to attend in her place by promising her food and other benefits.
• Big Orange met God of Love and God of Hate in Neutral Space, where they recognized her disguise and chose not to question Daisy’s absence.
• Adam arrived equipped with divine armor and the power of the Soul Stone, which he had crushed and absorbed.
• Adam saw Big Orange in Daisy’s place and believed Daisy had accepted that he would become the next Living Tribunal.

Adam believed he was ready to take on the Living Tribunal’s burden as gods gathered in Neutral Space to face an unknown enemy beyond the boundary. As the boundary came under attack, Daisy watched from the Clone Multiverse, having accepted that she could not reach perfect Star Mark power.

• Adam considered himself stronger and more prepared than Daisy, while Big Orange kept her distance from him.
• The Living Tribunal’s summons drew more than fifty Multiversal Tier deities and countless single-universe gods to Neutral Space.
• Big Orange waited with the assembled gods, uncertain why Daisy had sent her, while Adam remained blinded by his ambition to reach the summit.
• A vast vortex formed overhead as violent energy battered the boundary wall.
• Daisy observed from the Clone Multiverse and assessed her Star Mark power, then abandoned the pursuit of perfection and prepared to fight with her current strength.